i've heard that people who aren't faceblind tend to be unconsciously sensitive to relative proportions in the face, like distance between eyes and eyebrows, forehead size, nose size and length, relationship of mouth to chin to nose, etc, and those proportions tend to be very static within animated art styles (like, you've got 5 teenage girls in your magical girl anime cast, they all have similar big eyes and thin eyebrows and the same small nose and the same mouth size with different hairstyles and colors and costume designs)
meanwhile faceblind people often focus on details like hair color and style, distinctive clothing, etc.
so i wonder if people who are faceblind are more likely to see characters in the same art style with different designs as distinctive, while people who aren't faceblind are more likely to think they look really alike? which would make the entry barrier to anime lower for faceblind people unfamiliar with the artistic conventions than for face-seeing people equally unfamiliar...
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i've heard that people who aren't faceblind tend to be unconsciously sensitive to relative proportions in the face, like distance between eyes and eyebrows, forehead size, nose size and length, relationship of mouth to chin to nose, etc, and those proportions tend to be very static within animated art styles (like, you've got 5 teenage girls in your magical girl anime cast, they all have similar big eyes and thin eyebrows and the same small nose and the same mouth size with different hairstyles and colors and costume designs)
meanwhile faceblind people often focus on details like hair color and style, distinctive clothing, etc.
so i wonder if people who are faceblind are more likely to see characters in the same art style with different designs as distinctive, while people who aren't faceblind are more likely to think they look really alike? which would make the entry barrier to anime lower for faceblind people unfamiliar with the artistic conventions than for face-seeing people equally unfamiliar...